![]() ![]() ![]() James Blunt's debut, Back to Bedlam, was released in the U.K. After his performance at 2003's SXSW, Blunt met producer Linda Perry (Pink, Christina Aguilera), who offered the singer a deal on her very own label, Custard Records. Within months he landed both a publishing deal and a manager. When his military time was up, Blunt focused on making music his career, got a band together and recorded some demos. Writing was an escape for the singer-songwriter, a way to process the horrors of what he was witnessing, as songs like "No Bravery" attest. Armed with a gun and his guitar, James did his best to keep an even keel in a place that just experienced one of the bloodiest civil wars on record. Blunt did join the military, and in 1999 he served as a peacekeeper in Kosovo. In fact, that would be both cliche and a lie. It would be too cliche to say that Blunt's love for music helped him fight off the career designs of his over-enthusiastic father. But school wasn't all bad: Blunt learned how to play the piano there and even tried his hand at school plays. He excelled in science and math at school, so it wasn't a surprise that his father pushed him along the path of a military career. Growing up in England, James Blunt had a "traditional" childhood, which essentially means he was shipped off to boarding school at age seven. ![]()
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